CENTIFOLIA ROSES
Fantin-Latour
Centifolia, single blooming; source/date unknown.
Soft blush/shell pink; fragrant.
Heirloom Roses, 2005.
Ignace-Henri-Joseph-Theodore Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) earned his living by turning out over 800 paintings of flowers. His still-life bouquets featured the so-called “cabbage” roses—which are technically Centifolia or hundred-petalled roses. He also painted representations of themes from works of Hector Berlioz and what his biographer Gustave Kahn called “transcriptions” of scenes of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold”, one of which served as the cover of The Cleveland orchestra program book for 1992-93.
Heirloom Roses, 2005.
Ignace-Henri-Joseph-Theodore Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) earned his living by turning out over 800 paintings of flowers. His still-life bouquets featured the so-called “cabbage” roses—which are technically Centifolia or hundred-petalled roses. He also painted representations of themes from works of Hector Berlioz and what his biographer Gustave Kahn called “transcriptions” of scenes of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold”, one of which served as the cover of The Cleveland orchestra program book for 1992-93.
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The Magic Flute, II,28.
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"(Die Liebe) mag den Weg mit Rosen streun, weil Rosen stets bei Dornen sein"
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